Tastings & Events

Rheingau winemaker Eva Fricke returns to the shop to pour a selection of her Rieslings from 2016.

Friday, May 25

New Arrivals w/ Stephen Bitterolf of vom Boden!

5:00 PM
TO 7:00 PM

Thursday, May 31

Diane Pours New York Distilling Co. Spirits

5:00 PM
TO 7:00 PM

Friday, June 1

Ben from Bonhomie pours Orto wines!

5:00 PM
TO 7:00 PM

Wednesday, June 6

Christopher Pours Coppersea Whiskey

5:00 PM
TO 7:00 PM

One of our favorite New York distillers will be pouring his phenomenal Rye and Bourbon

Thursday, June 7

Leo Pours Street Pumas Vodka, Gin, and Rum

5:00 PM
TO 7:00 PM

Wednesday, June 13

Hank pours La Clarine Farm!

5:00 PM
TO 7:00 PM

Thursday, June 21

Chris Pours G-Vine Gin and La Quintinye Vermouth

5:00 PM
TO 7:00 PM

Wednesday, June 27

Enrique pours Suertes del Marques

5:00 PM
TO 7:00 PM

Thursday, June 28

Monica from Vine Connecrtions Pours Sake

5:00 PM
TO 7:00 PM

Featured Articles

Drinking Old Wine
Many of our favorite wines have been old bottles. While the great majority of wines are made to be consumed within a couple of years of their production, the relatively few wines that are intended to age can offer absolutely magical tasting experiences.
We are pleased to offer older wine

Decanting Wine
The following will GREATLY enhance your pleasure with a bottle of older wine. It may sound like a hassle, but it’s really not so bad, and well worth the trouble.
Basic Wine Decanting 101
There is nothing complicated or mysterious about this process; just follow these simple instruct

New from the Jura: Les Granges Paquenesses!Loreline Laborde is living the fantasy many city dwellers have during rush hour: fleeing the city to live a quiet life in harmony with nature. After completing her formal studies in viticulture, Loreline left the bustling city of Montpellier to make wine in the undulating foothills of Tourmont, a vi

Broc Cellars Rocks!Based out of Berkeley, California, Broc Cellars is an exciting winery, headed by winemaker Chris Brockway, that focuses on offbeat wines from intriguing and often much older vineyards. Their winemaking process uses only native yeasts with minimal doses of SO2 at bottling. These wines

New Arrivals from BordeauxWith the winter coming, what better than to drink beautiful full bodied red Bordeaux with hearty meals. Our new arrivals are exciting: all certified organic or biodynamic, these wines represent the true characteristics of traditional Bordeaux, offering vibrant minerality, great structure,&

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Get 10% off the purchase price with every order of 12 bottles or more of still wine not already on sale. The savings add up!

Offsite Tastings*

Candela Prol, highly experienced certified wine educator and friend of the shop, is available for tastings and training for private and corporate events.
For rates and other inquiries, please contact her at
candelaprol@gmail.com
.

*Offsite events are contracted to and coordinated by a 3rd party, and are in no way affiliated with Chambers Street Wines.

Tastings & Events

Wednesday, May 23

Taste New Arrivals from Jose Pastor Selections!

5:00 PM
TO 7:00 PM

Thursday, May 24

Eva Fricke pours her 2016ers!

5:00 PM
TO 7:00 PM

Rheingau winemaker Eva Fricke returns to the shop to pour a selection of her Rieslings from 2016.

Friday, May 25

New Arrivals w/ Stephen Bitterolf of vom Boden!

5:00 PM
TO 7:00 PM

Thursday, May 31

Diane Pours New York Distilling Co. Spirits

5:00 PM
TO 7:00 PM

Friday, June 1

Ben from Bonhomie pours Orto wines!

5:00 PM
TO 7:00 PM

Wednesday, June 6

Christopher Pours Coppersea Whiskey

5:00 PM
TO 7:00 PM

One of our favorite New York distillers will be pouring his phenomenal Rye and Bourbon

Thursday, June 7

Leo Pours Street Pumas Vodka, Gin, and Rum

5:00 PM
TO 7:00 PM

Wednesday, June 13

Hank pours La Clarine Farm!

5:00 PM
TO 7:00 PM

Thursday, June 21

Chris Pours G-Vine Gin and La Quintinye Vermouth

5:00 PM
TO 7:00 PM

Wednesday, June 27

Enrique pours Suertes del Marques

5:00 PM
TO 7:00 PM

Thursday, June 28

Monica from Vine Connecrtions Pours Sake

5:00 PM
TO 7:00 PM

Featured Articles

Drinking Old Wine
Many of our favorite wines have been old bottles. While the great majority of wines are made to be consumed within a couple of years of their production, the relatively few wines that are intended to age can offer absolutely magical tasting experiences.
We are pleased to offer older wine

Decanting Wine
The following will GREATLY enhance your pleasure with a bottle of older wine. It may sound like a hassle, but it’s really not so bad, and well worth the trouble.
Basic Wine Decanting 101
There is nothing complicated or mysterious about this process; just follow these simple instruct

New from the Jura: Les Granges Paquenesses!Loreline Laborde is living the fantasy many city dwellers have during rush hour: fleeing the city to live a quiet life in harmony with nature. After completing her formal studies in viticulture, Loreline left the bustling city of Montpellier to make wine in the undulating foothills of Tourmont, a vi

Broc Cellars Rocks!Based out of Berkeley, California, Broc Cellars is an exciting winery, headed by winemaker Chris Brockway, that focuses on offbeat wines from intriguing and often much older vineyards. Their winemaking process uses only native yeasts with minimal doses of SO2 at bottling. These wines

New Arrivals from BordeauxWith the winter coming, what better than to drink beautiful full bodied red Bordeaux with hearty meals. Our new arrivals are exciting: all certified organic or biodynamic, these wines represent the true characteristics of traditional Bordeaux, offering vibrant minerality, great structure,&

Roagna's vines in lower part of Paje in May; the vines at the top of the photo are not Roagna's.

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When you walk from neighboring vines into Roagna’s vineyard, you feel a little as if you’d left the desert for an oasis; on the day the photo above was taken there were birds, butterflies, and rabbits amongst the vines. Aside from the remarkable quality of Roagna’s wines, it’s hard not to feel that you’d really rather drink something made in an oasis rather than a desert. Unlike most grape growers, Roagna never went through a period of using chemicals in their vines – aside from copper and sulfur the vines have never been treated at all. They also don’t do much cleaning around the vines or between the rows, which give their vineyards a pretty wild look and makes them stand out in stark contrast to the conventionally farmed vines around them.

This is a very exciting little stash of Roagna’s Barbaresco. We love these wines, but older bottles are rare and hard to come by (G. Rinaldi being the only other of our Piemontese favorites that’s as difficult to find). Last Tuesday at home we had a half-bottle of Roagna 1996 Barbaresco Crichet Paje; since it was a school night it’s probably a good thing that it was just a half-bottle, because it was so phenomenally delicious that we would have easily consumed a full bottle. The 1996 will continue to improve for years to come; the 1982 and 1988s offered here are now in their prime.

A few more recent arrivals appear below. Please remember that to see current inventory you should click-through to view the article on the website. JW

Crichet Paje comes from some very old vines in the Paje vineyard. Luca Roagna explains that for years "because of the complications of local regulation we had to choose between callling the wine Barbaresco, or Crichet Paje — we could not call it Barbaresco Crichet Paje, so we chose to call it Crichet Paje... Crichet Paje is intended to be a unique and particular wine, an expression of our identity." It wasn't until 1996 that they were able to label the Crichet Paje as "Crichet Paje Barbaresco".

Not the Riserva, but no slouch, this wine is still alive and drinking. It may even show a bit more fruit that the '67 Riservas. With proper handling (time to rest, and proper decanting) this is a real treat.

1974 was a sleeper vintage for the Produttori, and it has definitely impressed on two separate occasions while tasting vertical flights of the cooperative's normale. Ripe red and black cherry fruit flavors mingle with secondary notes of balsamic, dark chocolate, and spaded earth. The medium body and robustness is supported by a quite lithe texture (1/17/17). Jonas Mendoza

I couldn't help but make the comparison initially to older Chianti, with flavors of dried red cherry and dried herbs. As the evening progressed, the wine became richer and weightier with darker fruit notes of black raspberry and brandied cherry with intensity similar to the blockbuster normale bottlings of 1971 and 1978. (1/17/17). Jonas Mendoza